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FIVE BEST FILMS
Lourdes, U
In Jessica Hausner’s unsettling drama, Sylvie Testud plays Christine, wheelchair-bound from MS and visiting Lourdes in no apparent hope of being “cured”. The remarkable coup of the film is that it can be taken either as a testament to the power of faith or as a subtle undermining of it.
Nationwide
Bananas! (NC, Fredrik Gertten, 80mins)
A controversial Swedish documentary following the case fought by a personal-injury lawyer on behalf of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers. It’s as gripping as any fictional courtroom drama, but it has a less comforting resolution.
Limited release
The Ghost (15, Roman Polanski, 128mins)
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Robert Harris novel is highly entertaining on two levels, as a steadily gripping conspiracy thriller and as a dryly witty and pointed political satire. Ewan McGregor stars as an unnamed ghostwriter hired to liven up the memoirs of a former British prime minister (Pierce Brosnan).
Nationwide
I Am Love
(15, Luca Guadagnino, 120mins)
A voluptuous unease defines the mood of this story about a super-rich Milanese family thrown into turmoil. Tilda Swinton stars.
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City of Life and Death
This account of the Nanking massacre in 1937 has an eerie, nightmarish quality, with moments so extreme that they look like images from an apocalyptic Hieronymus Bosch painting.
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